We shouldn't rejoin just because it would be good for growth. We should rejoin because we have shared goals and values. The growth is a welcome side-effect.
...but we need to keep a sovereign currency. We're going to need it to get out of the hole we're in. We're going to have to increase spending drastically and the ECB would never allow that.
Trial failed. Abandon the lifting of the ban.
Don't give them ideas.
So we've just bought a failing company? That doesn't sound good.
So I get that steel making might be a strategic national capability that we need to maintain, but is the government going to put the necessary investment into it? They seem incapable of investing in anything.
I do the same thing with orange juice.
I'm not sure we have ways of concentrating energy enough to do this. Heat pumps let us move heat, but I'm not aware of anything that can get the target to 100+ degrees Celsius.
Still worth a watch if you haven't in a while. The way the interviewer cracks always gets me.
I applaud her for forcing the issue. They have 3 years left and Starmer is a blocker to Labour doing what they need to do to win the next election. He has to go.
It would have been a step in the right direction. If nothing else, it would have shown we could change the voting scheme without the world falling apart.
....into another environment?
Freedom of movement was a good thing, and immigration has become far more uncontrolled since.